Data continues to be a hot topic in L&D. The options for
collecting data continue to grow, along with the potential for finding new
insights for learning design. But in conversations with L&D professionals
about the need for better data, it’s become clear that good design is not only
about designing for data, but also
designing from data.

In this session, you’ll walk through the strategies and activities
that will help you get the data you need to evaluate both course and user
performance, and to plan for meaningful analytics for your stakeholders. You’ll
look at how to use data to improve learning approaches throughout the design
cycle. Using a real-world learning scenario as a framework for the discussion,
you’ll start with a brief baseline overview of xAPI and its usage and then move
on to an exploration of data types, strategy, and the basics of data analysis—all
with the goal of empowering you to gather and use your data in new ways.

In this session,
you will learn:

How to use your data analytics to
improve course design

How to design to gather meaningful
data

About the potential pitfalls of data
interpretation

Lessons from other fields (like
business intelligence and web analytics) about how to apply data principles to
learning design

Audience:Novice to intermediate designers, developers,
and managers.

Sean Putman

Partner

Learning Ninjas

Sean Putman, a partner in Learning Ninjas, has been an instructor, instructional designer, and developer for over 15 years. He has spent his career designing and developing training programs, both instructor-led and online, for many different industries, but he has had a strong focus on creating material for software companies. Sean has spent the last few years focusing on the use and deployment of the Experience API (xAPI) and its effect on learning interventions. He has spoken at industry conferences on the subject and is co-author of Investigating Performance, a book on using the Experience API and analytics to improve performance.